By Fuad Abazovic in Las Vegas: Monday 10 January 2005, 19:31 Tyan Tomcat i7221 Server board NINE MONTHS after its NV40 introduction, Nvidia is still struggling to ship most of its PCIe high end parts based on this core.
NV45, 6800 GT or Ultra PCIe series are nothing more than an NV40 chip with BR2 bridge chip and specially PCB,but so far, Nvidia has hardly shipped any of the NV45s.
To be precise, Nvidia shipped some quantities of Geforce 6800GT PCIe but hardly any 6800Ultra PCIe. Luckily we heard from several sources that the first batch of NV45 based 6800 Ultra PCIe card is scheduled for end of the January. You can imagine our excitement when we heard that company can actually ship a chip announced nine months ago.
We are not sure about the numbers that Nvidia can possibly ship but many Nvidia partners were keen to tell us that they might have some cards by the end of the month. We don't think those cards will break shelves on the shop near by but you should be able to get some at least from etail web stores.
For most of Nvidia customers, this will be the first batch of NV45, 6800 Ultra PCIe cards ever. So much about X800XT PE card being the only ghost product. We can simply say that 6800 Ultra or X800XT PE were extremely unavailable trough 2004. µ